The U.S. is financially bankrupt. It has $9 trillion in official on-the-books debt, and $55 trillion in debt-plus-future-obligations. This debt is supported by an economy that has a structural trade deficit of $700 billion a year, with more jobs leaving the U.S. forever every year.
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The U.S. is morally bankrupt. It is unable to distinguish between actual right and wrong in real-life matters involving The Golden Rule, and to act accordingly. Torture, pre-emptive wars, assassination by executive order, and other gross violations of human rights are tolerated by not only the government leaders and politicians in power, but by most of America's churches and corporations.
In fact, in what's sometimes called a "Christian nation," many of America's most outspoken "Christian" leaders are unhappy that the U.S. has not already attacked Iran. They are fully supportive of Israel's genocidal and discriminatory policies against Palestinian civilians."Morality" is thus something that is applied by the government to individuals, but whatever the government itself does is "legal," and therefore "moral" by definition.
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The U.S. power structure -- the government bureaucracies, politicians, corporations, mass media, and churches -- is simultaneously rigid and fragile. It is rigid because the vast majority of the people working in it suffer from "group think," and will not alter or refuse illegal or immoral orders and policies from on high for fear of losing their perks and privileges. It is fragile because it is institutionally stupid and corrupt, requiring only additional time and entropy for catastrophic collapse. As that happens, it will eliminate even the pretense, the charade of a democratic republic.
Unfortunately, and sadly, there is no possibility of change via the ballot box. Thanks to decades of gerrymandering, incumbents rarely lose and their replacements are drawn from within the enormously corrupt Two-Party Machine. Always.
And there is no point in looking to the Democrats for salvation, or for progressive change. The Democratic Party sold out to corporate lobbyists long ago, and is nothing but a septic tank of incompatible philosophies held by compromised, unprincipled politicians. The Democratic Party's lowest common denominator is simply the status quo ... which is how we got here today, with permanent war, unaffordable healthcare, two million Americans in prison, many for small amounts of reefer, etc., etc.
The only commonality in the Democratic Party is that they are not Republicans, but even that can change in an instant. And look at Democrat Joe Lieberman's instant transformation. He quit hiding in the neocon closet after he was outed by Ned Lamont, and the Republican voters hoorayed. And so we are stuck with another 5 years of Uncle Joe's warmongering for Israel. He simply could not be removed from office by the voters in his party.
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Bottom Line, this is where the U.S. is now: It will fall from "superpower" status in at most two decades. It will become the Belgium of the Americas -- at best. Or possibly even become a failed state, insolvent and unable to collect taxes or provide any services except military gulags to hold angry prole mobs.
Or, if things go a little worse, the U.S. could be turned into a radioactive wasteland someday. After yet another moronic miscalculation by American leaders; the next global superpower may decide that enough is enough and that it's time for American "regime change" to permanently eliminate the nuclear blackmailers from power in Washington D.C.
Because what actual power does America have, except the threat of nuking non-nuclear nations which refuse to obey Washington's dictates? Nuclear blackmail is all that is left, once the last pretense of moral authority is stripped away from an oil-starved, financially bankrupt country running massive structural trade deficits.
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